Earlier this week, I modified my password for this blog in the interest of protecting relevant privacy.
This is both sensible and advisable in a world of increasing identity theft and other meddlesome intrusions, especially as practiced by government agencies in First World democracies.
Nineteen-Eighty Four, George Orwell’s dystopian satire, is dreadfully precise.
Despite some world-weary cynicism, imagine the shock and disgust of discovering my newly modified password had been quickly hacked. What was intended to bolster security, only served the opposite purpose.
The genuine disgust was in realizing the hacker had accessed my template and posted exact html codes for some nauseating pornography among my links.
The purpose of this blog is to explore consensual sex among educated adults, and the bias certainly favors bisexuality and wifesharing. These lifestyle issues are frequently rendered through erotica.
I stand by my last submission, Father Knows Best and its parody of Nabokov, which focused on the seduction of a Roman Catholic priest by a married Jewish woman.
The responsibility of artists, and writers top the list in my estimation, is to offer insights and empathy about the human condition. No mob is more dangerous than the moralistic mob, and so freedom of speech is indispensable.
However, even in a world of elastic scruples, there is no place for material that demeans any human. This doesn’t require textbook definitions; every intelligent person must agree there can be no justification for children and animals as sex objects.
Of course there is simply no justification for any behavior that is degrading and humiliating to others.
It’s embarrassing to state the obvious, yet this sort of clarification can never hurt.
Blogspot.com has sorted, at least temporarily, the breach to my blog security. Nevertheless, it was extremely disconcerting to be locked out of the house while watching an intruder exploit my contents.
O, the blogger behind the excellently written Eros, Logos, dispatched an email to many writers about this earlier today. It is well your consideration:
“I’m writing every blogger I know about a certain problem. A number of blogs and their authors are under attack.
So far the blogs in question have been sex blogs hosted on Blogger. There appears to be a weakness in Blogger’s security system.
In the last two days I have heard from two separate bloggers whose accounts were hacked. In one case the blog was replaced with links to sites featuring child pornography andbestiality.
In yet a third case, a sex blogger’s URL was sent to her boss, and the blogger in question received emails threatening to reveal her personal information to others.
In the two cases of hacking that I have heard of, both bloggers had changed their passwords recently. The only other commonality (as far as I know) appears to be that both write sex blogs, and both are hosted on blogger – these blogs don’t even link each other.
There seems to be some reason to suspect that the attacks are religiously motivated.I’m writing to warn people, and to solicit ideas that any may have to prevent this.
My current suggestion: forward this email or its content to anyone you know who could be at risk. Perhaps we could set up a blog to post updates and exchange information about techniques for protecting our anonymity.
One obvious move is to not login to your blog from a work server, but this is not practical for everyone.I am sending this email to those of you I know in the blogging community, but individually, so that our email addresses remain private. So it’s a form letter – my apologies.â€
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So, this happened to you, too?! I know you responded to my complaint over at Nympho Girl about my blog being hacked, though in my case I think it was for profit not for religous reasons, because he installed rather common links to crappy sites like “Big Naturals” and “Tug Jobs.” All of the links he (I’m assuming a male) set up were set to pay out to one account: “roganoli” (you can look at links by just putting your mouse over the banner or ad text and usually a URL will appear that often has either an account name or number in it).
Coincidentally and unfortunately for him, he sent me a promotional spam e-mail promoting his links site which is at http://www.rogerlinks.com from this e-mail addy: roganoli@hotmail.com. Now, “roganoli” isn’t a very common word. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve never encountered it before I found it both in the porn links he installed on my site and in his e-mail address.
Based on this information, I did a WHOIS on “rogerlinks.com” and discovered he’s in Brazil, which makes legal action relatively impractical. In his WHOIS, I also discovered who is hosting him and wrote them an e-mail detailing what he seems to be doing. I just got an e-mail back from them saying that they had asked him about it and that if they don’t get a reasonable explanation pretty soon (such an explanation being hard to imagine), they will likely stop hosting his domain. I may follow his domain for a while and tell each successive hosting service his story just to cause a little misery in his life comparable to the misery he caused in mine.
If someone puts links up in your blog, feel free to contact the webmasters of those sites to tell them their affiliate is a cheater. Write the company that processes the sales (you can dig this info up by going to the site being advertised and hitting the “Join” link).
Ultimately, if blogger/blogspot has a security problem, I may have to buy a domain and set the blog up there.
One thing is for sure, I’ll be backing up from now on. I’ve already backed up the stories by using Firefox’s “Save Page As” function, which saves both the page and the html to a file on your hard drive, but in the future, each template change will be saved on my drive as a text file.
It seems that everyday I’m hearing more of this, more sites that have been attacked. I’m with Jill above, mine didn’t seem to be religious and the four other s I know about right now weren’t either. It seems to be slightly different in each case however, although myself and one other got the same viral counter installed in our code.
As I said in another comment, I currently suspect a phishing scheme and faux sites set up to capture passwords, which is why so many that recently changed them are being attacked. Just be weary of where you are and if it is real or not. Word up.
Hi Vivianne,
God, the problem is even more widespread than I had initially realised. I had no idea that you were among the victims. Demon Queen has set up a blog over at http://stopinternetcensorship.blogspot.com for us all to monitor developments and exchange general information about security issues–I’m sure she’ll send you an invite.
Apart from this current security issue, it seems to me that it is a good idea for the blogging community to have a place to learn about basic security, especially sex bloggers, many of whom are deeply concerned about maintaining their anonymity. One of the attractions of blogging is its ease; unfortunately this means that many people who blog may have no real tech knowledge, and may have no idea how much information they indvertantly may reveal about themselves, in various ways. So the blog is a place where people can post articles on proxy servers, or various other things.
I’m so sorry this happened to you. How disgusting!
Love, O
Oh whoops–this is holiday’s post. Glad to know you weren’t among the victims yourself!cheers, O
My blog was recently hacked too. I was locked out and the hackers placed a stat counter on my site. I have no idea what the purpose was or what their intent was because other than that they did nothing. Perhaps they just wanted to prove they could do it. I did not however recently change my password. In fact I’ve had the same password since my blogs inception. Now I plan to change it more often but after reading this I’m not so sure. I guess if they want to get in they will. I think Blogger needs to update a little but at the same time what do I want for nothing?
Hugs
Des
Hi, im from Portugal (europe)
and an asshole hacker from Brasil stolen me 8 blogs!!!
I done everything possible.
I contacted the sites he was promoting, i reported the situation to blogger help (blogger never answered me),
i sent emails to him, i complainned to lot of services.
i posted messages on the blog telling he is a hacker, and nobody helped me !
I recently reported to blogspot and google people a problem that would easily allow the stealing of passwords. They were skeptical at first but I was able to demonstrate it for them and now they are anxiously working on a fix. I think when they fix that problem things will be a lot safer.
Dave – I looked up your website. I would love to talk more with you about this. I’ve got somewhere who is speaking at Gnomedex about this and would love to put you in touch with this person.
I actually reported 2 additional issues this weekend to the google people re: blogspot and one of the issues I found by analysing a hacked blog. I sent them the url for the hacked blog and the sites that were stealing logins. Unfortunately my recommendations to them for fixing issues would reduce some of the advanced customization features. (not entirely but a little) Sorry
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